implementation of the Medgaz Integrity Management System (MIMS) is expected to offer savings of 10-20% on pipelinemaintenance through guaranteed up-time and risk reduction in operating the deepwater pipeline system. The ultradeepwater

main line system. The firm let 11 construction contracts with a total value of $430 million (Canadian) for pipelinemaintenance , looping, and compressor-station construction (OGJ, June 15, 1998, p. 36). The summer construction and

Editor The U.S. agency that oversees pipeline safety has taken the unusual step of waiving certain natural-gas pipelinemaintenance regulations and permitted a group of gas-pipeline operators to perform repairs with a patented composite wrap

TSB said in its investigation report. They resulted from factors such as weakened soil support due to years of pipelinemaintenance , record-low temperatures, recent work at and around the valve site that might have driven frost deeper into

notification from Transneft that oil shipments along Baku-Novorossiisk had been suspended due to “planned” pipelinemaintenance . Barkov said the “planned” maintenance was carried out for a period of 8 hours, and that SOCAR was informed about this in

include pipeline control and operations, regulation and oversight, human performance, survival factors, and pipelinemaintenance and records,” it indicated. PG&E said in a response that while NTSB’s update noted a discrepancy in the local

Procedure An MFL intelligent pig inspection conducted after 4 years of uninterrupted pipeline operation fulfilled the pipelinemaintenance plan. The MFL pig inspection, though not the focus of this work, is an important step of a pipeline integrity

Technology challenges Baker Hughes plans to maintain its research and development budget; it has spent $450 million on pipelinemaintenance issues. Deaton warned, however, that companies could cut their technology budgets as they try to balance the